if you have shell access to your linux server, then it should be really straight forward. The openfire installation tutorials are fantastic and the openfire team have done an amazing job of making it really simple to setup.
The biggest challenge you may be having is how to get the openfire package onto your server, so that you can install it. Without a GUI, it’s slightly different.
I don’t know if your server is debian based or rhel based, so I’ll give basic instructions for both:
and gave write permissions. Now I started service using this command "sudo /etc/init.d/openfire start " it shows me this message. “openfire is running” One more thing I have added “JAVA_HOME=$(readlink -f /usr/bin/java | sed “s:bin/java::”)” line in “/etc/rc.d/init.d/openfire” file